Spotted Cat Designs

I like to shop at The Animal Rescue Site. You can also click to donate (free to you) money to this worthy cause. As they describe themselves:

“The Animal Rescue Site focuses the power of the Internet on a specific need — providing food for some of the 27 million unwanted animals given to shelters in the U.S. every year. Over 10 million animals are put to death every year in the U.S. alone because they are abandoned and unwanted.

Each click on the purple “Fund Food for Animals” button at The Animal Rescue Site provides food and care for a rescued animal living in a shelter or sanctuary. Funding for food and care is paid by site sponsors and distributed to animals in need at the Fund for Animals’ renowned animal sanctuaries (including Cleveland Amory Black Beauty Ranch in Texas and the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in California), pet shelters supported by the Petfinder Foundation, North Shore Animal League, and other worthy animal care facilities supported by the GreaterGood.org foundation.

100% of sponsor advertising fees goes to our charitable partners.

The Animal Rescue Site provides a feel-good way to help promote awareness and prevent rescued animal deaths every day — through easy and quick online activities.

Please remember to click every day to give help and hope to those most in need. Every click counts in the life of a rescued animal.

In addition to clicking the purple “Fund Food for Animals” button, visitors can help more by shopping in The Animal Rescue Site store. With each item purchased, shoppers generate funds for the feeding and care of animals in shelters and sanctuaries. The store offers a wide array of items to show your support.”

Care2.com is another place to shop, send ecards, or do daily click to donate for various worthy causes.

Endangered Species Chocolate Fair Trade, educational, conservation support, great customer service, and delicious, too!

Let me know if you have any favorites, too!

We not only have cats, we have reptiles and fish at our home. Since I work full time, time for shopping and especially for browsing is limited. My solution, like that of so many others is to surf the Internet. A lot of these places have email newsletters that I have signed up for, so I know in advance about sales and special offers.

Some of my favorite web sites for pet products are:

Drs. Foster & Smith – The Trusted Name for Cat Products

Petsmart

Pet Planet (U.K.)

Only Natural Pet Store

Amazon.com
Amazon is a good place for comparative product reviews.

And for those with allergies to pets my favorite site is: Allergy Control Products.

Other sites to go to are:

iAllergy

Allergy Be Gone

See my article about human allergies to cats and coping with an allergic cat.

In the last few weeks, we’ve noticed that it was becoming increasingly difficult to tell Nightstar and Panther apart. While it’s true young Nightstar has put on weight, she really wasn’t stocky like Panther. On the other hand, Panther seemed to be shrinking. So off he went to our wonderful local vets.

We were warned that the test results might show anything from diabetes to kidney disease, based on their observation that he had lost 2 pounds in 2 months. We were worried, because he’s our oldest (and first!) cat.

Well, today we found out he has diabetes, and apparently we “caught it” before things got really bad. So we’re learning all sorts of new stuff and learning to give insulin shots (or “jabs” as they call it in England), and Panther is going to have to cut down on soft drinks and candy (only kidding!). And chances are he’ll be able to keep living with us for a long time, as long as we take care of him properly.

If you find yourself having to deal with feline diabetes too, we’ve found some really good resources at VeterinaryPartner.com and FelineDiabetes.com.